Stanytsia Luhanska
Stanytsia Luhanska Станиця Луганська | |||
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Urban-type settlement | |||
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Stanytsia Luhanska Location of Stanytsia Luhanska within Ukraine | |||
Coordinates: 48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E / 48.67056°N 39.47222°ECoordinates: 48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E / 48.67056°N 39.47222°E | |||
Country | Ukraine | ||
Province | Luhansk Oblast | ||
Founded | 1688 | ||
Area | |||
• Total | 14.6 km2 (5.6 sq mi) | ||
Elevation | 40 m (130 ft) | ||
Population (01.01.2011)[1] | |||
• Total | 13,744 | ||
• Density | 940/km2 (2,400/sq mi) | ||
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) | ||
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) | ||
Postal code | 93600-93609 | ||
Area code | +380 6472 |
Stanytsia Luhanska (Ukrainian: Станиця Луганська; Russian: Станица Луганская) is an urban-type settlement on the banks of the Seversky Donets River in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Population: 13,734 (2013 est.)[2]. Stanytsia Luhanska is one of two local foundations of the Don Cossacks in today's Ukraine and the administrative center of the Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion 20 km northeast of Luhansk.
Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast;[3][4] including Stanytsia Luhanska.[5]
On 2 July 2014 not specified planes attacked the village and the village of Kondrashovka.[6] The Ukrainian army denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by the separatists.[7] There is also a version that the air strike was caused by a Russian aircraft in order to discredit the Ukrainian army by accusing it of bombing residential areas.[8]
On 21 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly were clearing Stanytsia Luhanska from the pro-Russian separatists.[9] The settlement remained under control of the Ukrainian authorities.[10] It became situated on the frontline with forces representing the Luhansk People's Republic and became regularly the victim of shelling.[11] An early 2017 agreement between the Ukrainian army and the separatist forces of the war in Donbass on the disengagement of forces in Stanytsia Luhanska failed to materialise.[11][12]
Demographics
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[13]
- Russian 92.4%
- Ukrainian 6.2%
- Romani 0.2%
- Armenian 0.2%
- Belarusian 0.1%
References
- ↑ Державний комітет статистики України. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2011 року, Київ-2011 (doc) Archived 10 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ https://newrepublic.com/article/117387/putin-accidentally-helping-unite-eastern-and-western-ukraine
- ↑ http://en.itar-tass.com/world/735082
- ↑ http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/fighting_continues_near_donetsk_luhansk_325524
- ↑ http://www.unn.com.ua/ru/news/1360658-rayonna-vlada-stanitsi-luganskoyi-povidomila-pro-naslidki-ta-zhertvi-sogodnishnogo-obstrilu
- ↑ https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/07/2/7030788/
- ↑ http://ipress.ua/ru/ljlive/samoleti_kotorie_bombyly_stanytsu_luganskuyu_pryletely_so_storoni_rossyy__zhurnalyst_72901.html
- ↑ http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/fighting_continues_near_donetsk_luhansk_325524
- ↑ Hard lines: Access issues deepen Ukraine aid crisis, IRIN (4 March 2016)
- 1 2 Read more on UNIAN:ATO HQ doubts disengagement in Stanytsia Luhanska soon (22-01-2017)
- ↑ Disengagement of forces in Donbas stalled, Interfax-Ukraine (17.11.2017)
- ↑